How would all the "new" boat guys be doing from the surf???

[Ed B]

Originally Posted by DZ

What's a boat?

Dennis, Dennis, Dennis, The boat thingy is what you take to go across the water to get to Block Island. Hey, that might make you a boat fisherman.

Pete G summed it up pretty well I think. But I will add this perspective as I kind of look at it this way with a different analogy to trout fishing. If you want to catch a cubic buttload of trout right now you could go to most of the trout ponds which you are familiar, get yourself a smalll craft, some jars of powerbait, drop lines down below the thermocline, drift around your structure and dropoffs, pop down some Brewski's to keep the energy and enthusiasm level up and become a commercial trout fisherman . There are many other possibilities as well included trolling deep and shore fishing the dropoff close to shore. Whatever. Yet there are still some guys who would only consider going to the rivers and streams of New England to fly-fish and that is what they will do regardless of how the fishing for the powerbait guy is in Lake Talupa, and the question of how the season is going for the Lake Talupa guys is kind of irrelevant.

It's really a matter of preference and telling a guy who is in the surf working the backwash from a stretch of boulders in RI or an outlet of a trough on the Cape Beach when the tide stage is just to his liking for a nice current to set up, how the boat guys are doing is nice but kind of an irrelevant piece of information, because he is a Surf Fisherman. Some surf fisherman with fly rods couldn't care less about the surf fisherman who uses bait, plugs or eels, just like the guy on the Wood River this evening who will be casting to a rising fish, the powerbait results on the Lake don't really enter into his brain.

I offer none of my preference as that is up to each individual to decide what is most favorable to him and how he wants to spend his time.

Ed